Dan looked himself over an concurred with his mom, this was pretty cool. He decided to shift back to normal, feeling his fur and mane recede, his legs reform to human proportions, his snout pulled in and his fangs withdrew.
"Hey, that was pretty cool. And I can do that anytime I want?" asked Dan.
"Yeah. Anytime. It may take you a little while to learn how to control it, and it is a curse, so you'll change at times you don't want to as well, but only on nights of the full moon, so be careful okay?" said his Mom.
"I will," replied Dan. He ran up to his room, pulled on another pair of shoes and a new pair of pants. He ran down the stairs and out the front door. He had a friend who he knew would dig this recent development.